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THE Masquerade By KATHERINE CECIL THURSTON, Author of "The Circle," Etc Copyright. 1905. 1004, Harper &- Brothers Chilcote. half halting In the door way, made an attempt to laugh. Of the two he was noticeably the more embarrassed. In Loder's well worn, well brushed tweed suit he felt strand ed on his own personality, bereft for the moment of the familiar accessories that helped to cloak deficiencies and keep the wheel of conventionality com fortably rolling. He stood unpleasant ly conscious of himself, unable to shape his sensations even in thought. He glanced at the fire, at the table, finally at the chair on which he had thrown his overcoat before entering the bedroom. At the sight of the coat his gaze brightened, the aimlessness forsook him, and he gave an exclama tion of relief. "By Jove!" he said. "I clean for- got." "What?" Loder looked round. "The rings." He crossed to the coat and thrust his hand into the pocket. "The duplicates arrived only this after noonthe nick of time, eh?" He spoke fast, his fingers searching busily. Oc cupation of any kind came as a boon. Loder slowly followed him, and as the box was brought to light he leaned forward interestedly. "As I told you, one is the copy of an oid signet ring, the other a plain band a plain gold band like a wedding ring." Chilcote laughed as he placed the four rings side by side on hissame palm. "I could think of nothing else that would be wide and not ostenta tious. You know how I detest dis- play." Loder touched the rings. "You have good taste," he said. "Let's see if they serve their purpose." He picked them up and carried them to the lamp. Chilcote followed him. "That was an ugly wound," he said, his curiosity reawakening as Loder extended his finger. "How did you come by it?" The other smiled. "It's a memento," he said. "Of bravery?" "No quite the reverse." He looked again at his hand, then glanced back at Chilcote. "No," he repeated, with an unusual impulse of confidence. "It serves to remind me that I am not ex emptthat I have been fooled like other men." "That implies a woman?" "Yes." Again Loder looked at the scar on his finger. "I seldom recall the thing, it's so absolutely past. But I rather like to remember it tonight. I rather want you to know that I've been through the fire It's a sort of guaran- tee." Chilcote made a hasty gesture, but the other interrupted it. "Oh, I know you trust me. But you're giving me a risky post. I want you to see that women are out of my line quite out of it." "But, my dear chap" Loder went on without heeding. "This thing happened eight years ago at Santasalare," he said, "a little place between Luna and Pistoriaa mere handful of houses wedged between two hills a regular relic of old Italy crum bling away under flowers and sunshine, with nothing to suggest the present century except the occasional passing of a train round the base of one of the hills. I had literally stumbled upon the place on a long tramp south from Switzerland and had been tempted into a stay at the little inn. The night after my arrival something unusual occur red. There was an accident to the train at the point where it skirted the village. "There was a small excitement. All the inhabitants were anxious to help, and I took my share. As a matter of fact, the smash was not disastrous: the passengers were hurt and fright ened, but nobody was killed." He paused and looked at his compan ion: but, seeing him interested, went en. "Among these passengers was an English lady. Of all concerned in the business, she was the least upset. When I came upon her she was sitting on the shattered door of one of the carriages calmly arranging her hat. On seeing me she looked up with the most charm ing smile imaginable. 'I have just been waiting for some body like you,' she said. 'My stupid maid has got herself smashed up some where in the second class carriages, and I have nobody to help me find my dog.' "Of course, that first speech ought to have enlightened me, but it didn't. I only saw the smile and heard the voice. I knew nothing of whether they were deep or shallow. So I found the maid and found the dog. The first expressed gratitude, the other didn't. I extricat ed him with enormous difficulty from the wreck of the lucrsase van. and this (Was how he marked his appreciation." He held out his hand and nodded to ward the scar. Chilcote glanced up. "So that's the explanation?" "Yes. I tried to conceal the thing when I restored the dog, but I was bleeding abominably and I failed. Then the whole business was changed. It was I who needed seeing to, my new friend insisted I who should be looked Otter and not she. She forgot the dog In the newer interest of my wounded finger. The maid, who was practically unhurt, was sent on to engage rooms at the little Inn, and she and I followed aiowlT. A r, ""That walk impressed me. There was an attractive mistiness of atmosphere in the warm night, a sensation more than attractive in being made much of by a woman of one's own class and country after five years' wandering." He laughed with a touch of irony. "But I won't take up your time with details. You know the progress of an ordinary love affair. Throw in a few more flowers and a little more sunshine than is usual, a man who is practically a hermit and a woman who knows the world by heart and you have the whole thing. "She insisted on staying in Santasa lare for three days in order to keep my finger bandaged. She ended by staying three weeks in the hope of smashing up my life. "On coming to the hotel she had giv en no name, and in our first explana tions to each other she led me to con clude her an unmarried girl. It was at the end of the three weeks that I learn ed that she was not a free agent, as I had innocently imagined, but possessed a husband whom she had left ill with malaria at Florence or Rome. "The news disconcerted me, and I took no pains to hide it. After that the end came abruptly. In her eyes I had become a fool with middle class prin ciples in my eyes But there is no need for that. She left Santasalare the night in a great confusion of trunks and hatboxes, and next morning I strapped on my knapsack and turned my face to the south." "And women don't count ever after?" Chilcote smiled, beguiled out of him self. Loder laughed. "That's what I've been trying to convey. Once bitten, twice shy!" He laughed again and slipped the two rings over his finger with an air of finality. "Now, shall I start? This is the latch- key?" He drew a key from the pocket of Chilcote's evening clothes. "When I get to Grosvenor square I am to find your house, go straight In, mount the stairs and there on my right hand will be the door of yourI mean my own private rooms. I think I've got it by heart. I feel inspired. I feel that I can't go wrong." He handed the two remaining rings to Chilcote and picked up the overcoat. "I'll stick on till I get a wire," he said. "Then I'll come back and we'll reverse again." He slipped on the coat and moved back toward the table. Now that the decisive moment had come it embarrassed him. Scarcely knowing how to bring it to an end, he held out his hand. Chilcote took it, paling a little. "'Twill be all right!" he said, with a sudden return of nervousness. 'Twill be all right! And I've made it plain aboutabout the remuneration? A hundred a week, besides all expenses." Loder smiled again. "My pay? Oh, yes, you've made it clear as day. Shall we say good night now?' "Yes. Good night." There was a strange, distant note in Chilcote's voice, but the other did not pretend to hear it. He pressed the hand he was holding, though the cold dampness of it repelled him. "Good night," he said again. "Good night." They stood for a moment awkwardly looking at each other, then Loder quiet ly disengaged his hand, crossed the room and passed through the door. Chilcote, left standing alone in the middle of the room, listened while the last sound of the other's footsteps was audible on the uncarpeted stairs. Then, with a furtive, hurried gesture, he caught up the green shaded lamp and passed into Loder's bedroom. CHAPTER VIII. O all men come portentous mo ments, difl&cult moments, tri umphant moments. Loder had had his examples of all three, but no moment in his career ever equaled in strangeness of sensation that in which, dressed in another man's clothes, he fitted the latchkey for the first time into the door of the other man's house. The act was quietly done. The key fitted the lock smoothly, and his fin gers turned it without hesitation, though his heart, usually extremely steady, beat sharply for a second. Th hall loomed massive and somber, des pite the modernity of electric lights. It was darkly and expensively dec orated in black and brown a frieze of wrought bronze, representing pea cocks with outspread tails, ornament ed the walls the banisters were of heavy ironwork, and the somewhat formidable fireplace was of the same flark metal. Loder looked about him, then ad vanced, his heart again beating quick By as his hand touched the cold ban ister and he began his ascent of the stairs. But at each step his confi dence strengthened, his feet became more firm until, at the head of theabout stairs, as if to disprove his assurance, his pulses played him false once more, this time to a more serious tune. From the farther end of a well lighted cor ridor a maid was coming straight in his direction. For one short second all things seemed to whiz about him the cer tainty of detection overpowered his toind. The Indisputable knowledge [TO BE CONTINUED.] THJS PBINCETCm UNION: TtfTJBSDAY, JANUARY Yi\ 1907i that he was John Loder and ho other, despite all armor of effrontery and dress, so dominated him that all other considerations shrank before it. It wanted but one word, one simple word of denunciation, and the whole scheme was shattered. In the dismay of the moment he almost wished that the word might be spoken and the sus pense ended. But the maid came on in silence, and so incredible was the silence that Loder moved onward too. He came within a yard of her, and still she did not speak. Then, as he passed her, she drew back respectfully against the wall. The strain, so astonishingly short, had been immense, but with its slack ening came a strong reaction. The ex pected humiliation seethed suddenly to a desire to dare fate. Pausing quickly, he turned and called the wo man baek. The spot where he had halted was vividly bright, the ceiling light being directly above his head, and as sheSt. came toward him he raised his f,ace de liberately and waited. She looked at him without surprise or interest. "Yes, sir?" she said. "Is your mistress in?" he asked. He could think of no other question, but it served his purpose as a test of his voice. Still the woman showed no surprise. "She's not in, sir," she answered. "But she's expected in half an hour." "In half an hour? All right. That's all I wanted." With a movement of decision Loder walked back to the stair head, turned to the right and opened the door of Chilcote's rooms. The door opened on a short, wide pas sage. On one side stood the study, on the other the bed, bath and dressing rooms. With a blind sense of knowl edge and unfamiliarity, bred of much description on Chilcote's part, he put his hand on the study door and, still exalted by the omen of his first suc cess, turned the handle. Inside the room there was firelight and lamplight and a studious air of peace. The realization of this and a slow incredulity at Chilcote's voluntary renunciation were his first impressions. Then his attention was needed for more imminent things. As he entered the new secretary was returning a volume to its place on the book shelves. At sight of him he push ed it hastily into position and turned round. "I was making a few notes on the political position of Khorasan," he said, glancing with slight apprehensiveness at the other's face. He was a small, shy man, with few social attainments, but an extraordinary amount of learn ingthe antithesis of the alert Bless ington, whom he had replaced. Loder bore his scrutiny without flinching. Indeed, it struck him sud denly that there was a fund of inter est, almost of excitement, in the en countering of each new pair of eyes. At the thought he moved forward to the desk. "Thank you, Greening," he said. "A very useful bit of work." The secretary glanced up, slightly puzzled. His endurance had been se verely taxed in the fourteen days that he had filled his new post. "I'm glad you think so, sir," he said, hesitatingly. "You rather poohpoohed the matter this morning, if you remem- ber." Loder was taking off his coat, but stopped in the operation. "This morning?" he said. "Oh, did I? Did I?" Then struck by the op portunity the words gave him he turn ed toward the secretary. "You've got to get used to me, Greening," he said. "You haven't quite grasped me yet, I can see. I'm a man of moods, you know. Up to the present you've seen my slack side, my jarred side, but I have quite another when I care to show it. I'm a sort of Jekyll and Hyde affair." Again he laughed, and Green ing echoed the sound diffidently. Chil cote had evidently discouraged famil iarity. Loder eyed him with abrupt under standing. He recognized the loneli ness in the anxious, conciliatory man ner. "You're tired," he said kindly. "Go to bed. I've got some thinking to do. Good night." He held out his hand. Greening took it, still half distrust ful of this fresh side to so complex a man. "Good night, sir," he said. "Tomor row, if you approve, I shall go on with my notes. I hope you will have a restful night.'^ Cured of Lung Trouble. "It is now eleven years since I hadMeyers' a narrow escape from consumption," writes C. O. Floyd, a leading business man of Kershaw, S. C. I had run down in weight to 135 pounds, and coughing was constant, both by dayup and by night. Finally I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery, and con tinued this for about six months, when my cough and lung trouble were en tirely gone and I was restored to my normal weight, 170 pounds." Thous ands of persons are healed every year. Guaranteed at C. A. Jack's drug store. 50 cents and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Her Reason. The bishop of Norwich, while walk ing in the suburbs, met a little girl of eight or nine years, who asked, "Oh, please, sir, will you open this gate for me?" The bishop held back the gate for the little maid to pass through, and when she thanked him he asked her if she was not big enough to open the gate herself. "Oh, yes, sir," she replied, sweetly, "bub you see the paint is wet, and I should have soiled my hands."Harpers Magazine. State News. i The cost of St. Paul's new union depot will be about $300,000. William Burchite, charged with manslaughter in shooting Louis Kling by mistake for. a deer, near Cass lake, on Nov. 14 last, was found not guilty. John Cooper, once president of the Minnesota State Fair association, died last week at Redelands, Cal., where he had gone to spend the winter with his wife. After 20 years as one of the pub lishers of the St. Peter Herald. Gov. Johnson has sold, in part, his interest in the paper. The purchaser is Oliver J. Quane. Over 3,000 exhibits from all parts of the country have been entered for the annual show of the Minnesota Poultry Fanciers' association, to be held in Paul Jan. 23 to 30. 1 The large quadriga has been set inby place over the south entrance to the new state capitol. The quadriga is the work of two sculptors, Daniel C. French and E. C. Potter. The creamery at Hinckley, operated by the Northern Creamery company, was burned to the ground, nothing be ing saved from the ruins. The loss is estimated at $2,500, with $600 insur ance. Oscar Elstan, aged 19 years, son of O. G. Elstan, a prominent farmer living two and one-half miles east of Sandstone, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head with a rifle. No cause is known for his rash act. It is just possible that the digging of the Panama canal by the govern ment will seriously interfere with the range mining industry. A number of the best steam shovel men have gone to the isthmus and there entered the employ of the government. There is rebellion in Albert Lea over the increase in the rent for post office boxes, and the patrons who go to the office for their mail are plan ning a boycott of Uncle Sam, as far as private boxes are concerned. They will get their mail at the general delivery. The increase made on the first of the year was about one-half of the former price. Mrs. C. F. Kindred formerly of Brainerd, died at her home in Phila delphia on Thursday afternoon. She was the wife of C. F. Kindred, form erly one of the leading figures of Min nesota political and business life, whose famous congressional fight with Hon. Knute Nelson is still the talk of many old-timers. Mrs. Kindred's death was caused by typhoid fever. Mayor Jesmore of Eveleth has or dered that all saloons having slot machines hereafter shall pay a fine of $10 and costs of $3 per month, instead of $5 fine and $3 costs. The increase is being paid by a majority of the saloonkeepers, but some of the smaller places have turned the machines to the wall. They took this action in preference to paying the fine de manded. Indian Agent John T. Frater has invoked the aid of the county attorney of Cass county to stop the practice of certain saloons in Walker from sell ing liquor to Indian women and school children at the Indian school. Mr. Frater takes the stand that the women are habitual drunkards and the children minors. Provided he can find no redress through the county, he will take the matter before government officials. Jokers at Austin placed a stuffed dummy on the Iowa Central track to see the engineer stop the train. The train was running so fast that the air brakes were useless and the engineer almost collapsed because he thought he had mangled a human being. The railroad is investigating the matter, and there has been a moving of jokers from the own of Austin, where, it seems the fool killer has not made frequent enough trips. A hold-up man entered Henry C. Meyer's saloon at Afton and made away with $80, which he took from pockets and money drawer. Several customers were in the saloon, and when the robber entered he pointed a gun at them and commanded them to line up against the wall and throw their hands. They did so and he coolly went through Meyers' clothes for the money, helped himself to a little whisky and disappeared. Examinations will be held through out the country on Feb. 5 next for positions in the agricultural depart ment under the pure food and drugs act. The examinations will be for one chief food and drug inspection chem ist at $3,000 a year several food and drug inspection chemists at $2,000 a year, and a large number of food and drug inspectors at $2,000 a year. In all, about 75 appointments are to beAll made. The list of eligibles will be certified to the department as soon as the papers of the applicants can be examined after the examinations. I "That it is the intention of President Hill to build for St. Paul anew union station is believed very generally by those in position to know. It is as serted with every degree of positive- R. ^^Sf^SSFT^W ness that he has already outlined to the other roads interested in the sta tion the plans he regards as best, and that those plans have been passed up to General Supt. Darling, but the en terprise is not yet in such shape as would warrant that official in making them public. Automobile Omnubns Lines in Paris. The first of the automobile omnibus lines commenced running in Paris not long ago, says the Scientific American. 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